Ghost Town Phenomenon in Ghost Town

With the alternation of power and capital, it spread all over the country like an infectious disease. In addition to Guiyang and Yingkou, which were widely reported before, the phantom of ghost towns began to appear in Changzhou, Jiangsu, Hebi, Henan and Shiyan, Hubei. From south to north, from coastal areas to inland areas, from first-tier cities to small counties, many new districts and new cities have more or less won the title of "empty cities and ghost towns". It is worth noting that there are many risks hidden behind these ghost towns, such as the bursting of the real estate bubble, the tension or even rupture of the capital chain, and the lack of industrial support for urban development. There are fewer people during the day and fewer lights at night.

Changzhou, Jiangsu, which is known as the birthplace of Wu culture and has a prosperous reputation, is called a "ghost town" because of the concentrated real estate in the new city, low occupancy rate and a large backlog of commercial housing.

Just after the Spring Festival of 20 13, the commercial real estate and residential projects in Changzhou are facing the situation of oversupply, and the real estate bubble in Changzhou is an indisputable fact.

Wujin withdrew from the county to set up a city 1995, and withdrew from the city to set up a district in 2002. It is a "southern new city" that Changzhou has focused on in recent years. Wuyi Road, which runs through the north and south, is located in Wujin District. Journey to the south connects Lanling North Road in the center of the old city of Changzhou and extends southward to Wujin New City, which is known as the gathering place of new buildings in Changzhou. There are more than ten buildings on Wuyi Road, such as Dehe Haojing, Xinghe International and Four Seasons City.

Compared with other surrounding cities, Changzhou's housing prices are not high, mostly concentrated in 6000 ~8000 yuan/square meter. It is this relatively low housing price that attracts a large number of buyers from surrounding cities, especially Shanghai and Nanjing. Statistics show that in the 20 12 Changzhou real estate market, foreign buyers account for about 60%.

Because local low-income people and migrant workers have no money to buy a house, a large number of houses are bought by foreigners but rarely live in the local area, and most local property owners own multiple houses, which makes many buildings in Wujin District look empty. Limited demand and oversupply have led to a large surplus of residential real estate in Changzhou.

Residential real estate is not the most serious, and the bubble of commercial real estate makes people feel dangerous. A local developer in Changzhou told reporters that the pressure of residential sales is not too great, but the supply of commercial property has obviously exceeded the demand. As early as 1992, Hebi, Henan Province, supported by coal chemical industry, began to build a new area 40 kilometers away from the old city to deal with the goaf problem caused by coal mining. It is the first prefecture-level city in Henan Province to build a new district, and this new district becomes qibin district.

However, this new area, which has been built for more than 20 years, is still an empty city and has become a "sleeping city".

In addition, the barren new area continues to expand. According to the latest overall planning of Hebi New District approved by the Henan Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government, the planned area of Hebi New District is about 130 square kilometers, which is roughly equivalent to the planned area of the famous "ghost town" kangbashi 155 square kilometers.

There are only 2,000 shops in Yinxing Plaza, but there is a furniture plaza in the east, Yulong Commercial Plaza in the west and the newly opened Zhong Kai Commercial Street in the north. When the reporter walked into Ginkgo Square, he found that about 30% of the shops were still vacant, most of the shops were in a bleak business, and there were few people in the big shopping malls.

Ginkgo Square is a newly developed center in Hebi City after several commercial centers. The local people are not optimistic about the market performance of these new shopping malls.

Compared with the shabby but prosperous old city, qibin district looks deserted.

Hebi, which is developed on the basis of coal, governs Xunxian, Qixian, qibin district, Shancheng, Heshan and Hebi Economic Development Zones. Among them, Shancheng District and Heshan District are the old city and the new city is qibin district.

According to the data in the 201/national economic and social statistical bulletin of Hebi city, the proportion of the tertiary industry in Hebi city is 20 1 1 .0, 7 1.5 and 17.5 respectively, and its industry accounts for 76,438 of GDP. Two years after the opening of some properties in Yingkou, the sales area is still only about 20%; Liaoning (Yingkou) coastal industrial base under development is even a wasteland. Only the buildings are empty, and some projects under construction have even stopped working.

Hu Xiaodeng believes that on the one hand, to prevent the hollowing out of new urban construction, there must be corresponding industrial support, and plane transplantation cannot be carried out. "New wine in new bottles, but now many new urban areas are built with old wine in new bottles, that is, the original ones are demolished and moved to new areas. Urban construction in the past 30 years has basically been this set. "

"Secondly, it is to prevent the new district from becoming a reinforced concrete urbanization, not an inhuman urbanization. Without the urbanization of the population, it is impossible to form an industry, and the hollowing out of the entire new district will repeat itself. " Hu Xiaodeng said that it is necessary to clarify the purpose, core content, mode, direction and quality of the construction of the new district. "Otherwise, the construction of new districts in various names will become real estate development and may eventually become an empty city."